Back to School with Yahooligans!Business Editors & Education Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2000 Award-Winning Site Supplies Enhanced Educational Resources To Students And Teachers Returning To Class Students and teachers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. online educational resources this school year should look no further than Yahooligans!(R), Yahoo!'s web guide for kids ages 7 - 12 (www.yahooligans.com). Since 1996, Yahooligans! has been one of the leading providers of safe, friendly, kid-appropriate information on the Internet. With new services and features ready to go for the start of the school year, Yahooligans! is the perfect starting place for students and teachers who are online in the classroom. "Since its inception four years ago, Yahooligans! has been committed to providing a high quality, safe, and fun online experience for kids and adults," said Catherine Davis, producer, Yahooligans!. "The Yahooligans! team, made up of experienced teachers from various grade levels, has been working hard this summer to get ready for back to school. We have added new features and expanded many others, ensuring an enhanced educational experience for the new school year." Yahooligans! Messenger Connects Kids New to Yahooligans!, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or enables students and teachers to quickly exchange messages with their online friends. Unlike email, instant messages appear as soon as they're sent, so conversations take place in real time. It's a safe way to communicate because it is designed for kids to talk to friends they already know. With Yahooligans! Messenger, students can stay in touch with homework buddies and teachers can link students together on group projects. Cool features available on messenger include voice chat, rooms where more than two people can chat, and news and sports scores. Kids can personalize their messenger by downloading fun themes and customizing the button and background designs. Tools in the Classroom Due to popular demand, `Ask Earl' is now available five days a week. Kids submit questions to Earl and he searches the web through Yahooligans! for the answer. Earl answers one question each day and posts his answer on Yahooligans! so everyone can learn from his research. Other classroom tools on Yahooligans! include School Bell - homework help in a variety of areas including math, science, history, literature and more; The Big Picture - the latest daily news and comprehensive coverage on current and historic events, science, sports and entertainment; Downloader - downloadable pictures, sounds and videos; and Almanac almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. - fun facts about people, government, geography, holidays and important events from around the world. Yahooligans! for Parents & Teachers Teachers and parents find Yahooligans! helpful inside the classroom and at home. The Teachers' Guide is always new, featuring updated newsletters on a variety of topics such as upcoming holidays or elections, as well as access to various grade level lesson plans, education web sites and guides to teaching Internet literacy. The Parents' Guide provides practical tips for parents to ensure safe and fun family web surfing Refers to jumping from page to page on the Web. Just as in "TV channel surfing," where one clicks the remote to go from channel to channel, the hyperlink on Web pages makes it easy to jump from one page to another. . Games for Fun and Learning Once the homework is done, kids can enjoy new and fun educational games such as Word Racer Word Racer is a game developed by Yahoo! in 1999 for use on its Yahoo! Games page. The game play is similar to Boggle with some notable exceptions, especially the scoring and game board configurations. , Go, 21, Spades, Hearts, Backgammon backgammon (băk`găm'ən, băk'găm`ən), game of chance and skill played by two persons upon a specially marked board divided by a space, called the bar, into two tables (inner table and outer table), each of which has 12 and Chinese Checkers, along with the oldies Oldies is a generic term commonly used to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on Top 40 music from the '50s, '60s and '70s. Oldies are typically from R&B, pop and rock music genres. but goodies including Word Search, Dominoes, Chess, Checkers, Go Fish, Reversi, Maze, Tic-Tac-Toe, and Yahoo! Towers Yahoo! Towers is a multiplayer game and a member of the Yahoo! Games network of online computer games. It is a puzzle game involving falling blocks. Games are played competitively amongst human users. . About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and media Company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 156 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. The company also provides online business services designed to enhance the Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients, including audio and video streaming See streaming video and video stream. , store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 23 local World properties outside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States The United States and Canada share a unique legal relationship. U.S. law looks northward with a mixture of optimism and cooperation, viewing Canada as an integral part of U.S. economic and environmental policy. , and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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